Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Place-specific buddy list services
- Patent Title (中): 特定地点的好友列表服务
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Application No.: US12783669Application Date: 2010-05-20
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Publication No.: US08483670B2Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Jean Pierre De Vries
- Applicant: Jean Pierre De Vries
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Merchant & Gould PC
- Main IPC: H04M3/42
- IPC: H04M3/42 ; H04W24/00

Abstract:
An information service provides search and notifications to inform when certain people (e.g., friends, family, business contacts, etc.) are nearby so as to facilitate communications with those people. Users may define lists of people whose locations may be tracked by positioning equipment based on personal communications/computing devices carried by the people.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100227594A1 PLACE-SPECIFIC BUDDY LIST SERVICES Public/Granted day:2010-09-09
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